In addition, Brooklyn is filled with young professionals and has a lot of fun stuff to do.2) I want an appreciation playI understand cash-flow near NYC is tough, so I want the appreciation play to be strong via the forced appreciation and via normal appreciation.

I understand that not everyone has the means to buy a home and have huge amounts of negative cash flow every month.

But I understand not everyone will be able to do that and will need to find a GC to build it out for them and pay them their general conditions, contingencies, and markups.

Never did anything to the back wall, likely does not understand that the wall will fall off, but not my concern now.  

From my understanding you about have to install a pool in AZ for a STR.

I deeply appreciate any insights, advice, or anecdotes that you can share to help me better understand Subto financing and navigate the compensation aspect for real estate professionals.

The other spectrum is when the investor plays attorney and did not run it by an attorney and realizes they did not understand the legal process and are like “wait, I bought this thinking I could do X but I cannot because of Y”, - and a common response is “your attorney did not advise you of this in due diligence” and the response is we did not use an attorney.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.Once you figure out what Class you want to invest in, then you should target a city.Check out some of the great things happening in Detroit in 2024https://michiganchronicle.com/2024/01/03/major-developments-that-will-define-detroit-in-2024/

The Real Estate Investment world is vast to say the least, and I understand it can be troubling ot figure out where to start.

Where most wanna be investors lacking capital make their mistake is that they don’t understand that if you lack capital you need extensive knowledge; and that knowledge is NOT obtained from a guru mentorship focused on some specific (often fantasy) technique.